"Takes mobility to be the norm, rather than the exception to a norm of stasis and stability. Both in-depth investigations of specific forms of mobility work in composition, as well as and responses to and reflections on those explorations"--
Contributed by English, writing, and rhetoric and composition faculty from universities in the US, the 20 essays in this volume provide a mobility perspective on work in composition and the issues of the globalization of higher education and writing programs; the transnational movement of students and faculty; the mobilization of knowledge about composition as it travels from research articles to policy proposals to pedagogical and compositional practices; the circulation of texts and ideas and the role of language in literacy and the movement of texts, ideas, and people; and the mobility of capital shaping the conditions within which composition work occurs. In the first section, they address key issues in rhetoric and composition, including translingual and multilingual literacies, digital and professional writing pedagogies, and community literacy, with discussion of workplace mobilities for faculty and trends related to how and why faculty move institutions, the mobilization of black women's vernacular technological creativity, the use of design thinking in the writing classroom to help students learn to mobilize knowledge production, and composition processes that mobilize memory objects for a new audience and purpose, followed by responses to the chapters in the first section and how and when mobility might be used within rhetoric and composition. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Mobility Work in Composition explores work in composition from the framework of a mobilities paradigm that takes mobility to be the norm rather than the exception to a norm of stasis and stability.
Mobility Work in Composition explores work in composition from the framework of a mobilities paradigm that takes mobility to be the norm rather than the exception to a norm of stasis and stability.
Both established and up-and-coming scholars bring a diversity of geographic, institutional, and research-based perspectives to the volume, which includes in-depth investigations of specific forms of mobility work in composition, as well as responses to and reflections on those explorations. Eight chapters present specific cases or issues of this work and twelve shorter response chapters follow, identifying key points of intersection and conflict in the arguments and posing new questions and directions to pursue.
Addressing matters of knowledge transfer and meaning translation, immigrant literacy practices, design pedagogy, academic career changes, student websites, research methodologies, school literacy programs, and archives, Mobility Work in Composition asks what mobility in composition means and how, why, and for whom it might work. It will be of broad interest to students and scholars in rhetoric and composition.
Contributors: Anis Bawarshi, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Patrick Danner, Christiane Donahue, Keri Epps, Eli Goldblatt, Rachel Gramer, Timothy Johnson, Jamila Kareem, Carmen Kynard, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Andrea Olinger, John Scenters-Zapico, Khirsten L. Scott, Mary P. Sheridan, Jody Shipka, Ann Shivers-McNair, Scott Wible, Rick Wysocki
